Christmas holidays in the 80's

Lexus1976

God I miss the 80's! I'd wake up at 7am every morning run down the stairs to our black and white groundig TV and spend hours upon hours playing Hero on my Atari 2600.

Most evenings I'd play Operation with my cousins until I smashed it to smitherines with a lump hammer. Fecking infuriating game!


Hero

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWwfl1OUx40

Pitfall

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwfF5-Wt6YU&NR=1

Operation

http://www.technovelgy.com/graphics/content07/doctor-bot-operation.jpg


How did you spend your christmas holidays in the 80s?

pebbles21

I got trousers with the front pockets cut out so i had something to play with:D

Mossy Monk

Simple times. Pitfall was great.

SEPT 23 1989

Flash bastard

Agricola

The details are alittle hazy at this stage but yeah probably alot like yours OP. I had a 2600 too. Lots of Kung FU Master as I recall! I remember when I first brought it down to the sitting room and hooked it up to our MASSIVE 21" colour TV - 8 bit graphics in full colour WOW

Rented Mule

I had an Atari 2600 before it was known as the '2600'.

Ponster

All Things Retro


edit : you were a Flash Bastard as some of us only had ZX80s.

OutlawPete

I got one of these for Christmas in '81

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycdNisvI-7E

mink_man

really?

Dempseys Den

OutlawPete

mink_man wrote: »

really?

Really

boodlesdoodles

One Christmas, my brother got a small white Pac-Man game some time around mid-80s I think. It had 2 little silver joysticks. He spent a full 14hours playing it, so much so he broke the stick that moved Pac-man around and ended up having to put a match in place of it. I spent the 14hours watching him, I wasn't allowed play. My bro decided he had to see what happened when he got to 1million. After 14hours of dedicated playing (ending up for the last couple of hours in a dark kitchen as batteries were dying) he got to million and the game went straight back to 01. He picked up the game and kicked it across the back yard in temper. Now that was a great Christmas

The Saint

Ah yes. The 2600, the memories. I got mine with Centipede. Later I got Title Match Pro Wrestling and thought I was a right flash bastard. Good times.

tony1kenobi

I had to make do with an Optimus Prime.No video games in my house till the commodore 64.

mikemac

You must have been rich OP to have an Atari, we made do with a Commodore 64.
Ah bless, 10 minutes to load a game on a tape

Though at least we had a colour TV
Ferguson I believe was the make.

OutlawPete

mikemac wrote: »

You must have been rich OP to have an Atari, we made do with a Commodore 64.
Ah bless, 10 minutes to load a game on a tape

Though at least we had a colour TV
Ferguson I believe was the make.

Had a Commodore 64 myself.

Posh kids had a Spectrum 45

What was cool was that you could copy games on a double-deck so then you had a 90 minute cassette tape with 50 games or so.

Defender, Ghosts and Goblins.

I also remember spending a hour or more typing out some code so that a mad with a balloon with walk accross the screen :rolleyes:

The Saint

Man the Commodore 64 was for the rich kids. One friend got a Commodore Amiga jammy bastard. I practically moved into his house.

mikemac

OutlawPete wrote: »

I also remember spending a hour or more typing out some code so that a mad with a balloon with walk accross the screen :rolleyes:

Everyone did this
Some language called BASIC or something like that. They gave examples in the instruction manuel and you could type it all if you wanted to.
Loads and loads of code to type and at the end you've see some graphic

Stupid looking back at it now but it was fantastic at the time

Only posh and rich feckers had a Spectrum or Amiga

BluesBerry

Commordor 64 ....Flimbos Quest:D

mikemac

Flimbo's Quest was a mega game! :cool:

Closely followed by Leaderboard, the golf game

Some quality games alright on the Commodore 64

Madflah

The Saint wrote: »

Man the Commodore 64 was for the rich kids. One friend got a Commodore Amiga jammy bastard. I practically moved into his house.

Ah the old Amiga replaced my C64...more 90's I suppose though. Still have it too. Think it cost the folks bout £500stg so bout €800 today:o Batman pack if i remember. Disgraceful amount of time spent around the portable nordmende in the kitchen 5 or 6 of us playing Kick Off. Drove my mother mad hehe. We werent rich i was just spoiled rotten...

jimmycrackcorm

Playing pong for the first time on a black and white tv was an absolute eye opener.

staker

I remember the next door neighbour got a BMX, he was showing off to us all day long, up and down the road.
The aul fella got mad and went out to him and told him to fuck off back home or he'd get a size eleven up the hole.
I remember it well, me and the brother got Britains tractors, and they were well dear back then...

Aaaaahh, the eighties.....:pac:

dan de man

and..u got ONE present each,not a ps3 a laptop and a load of side presents,it was a basic remote control car,buckaroo or the like...and u were damn glad of it

mikemac

Buckaroo, the sport of kings :cool:

mink_man

i think this is a crappy thread!

mikemac

mink_man wrote: »

i think this is a crappy thread!

And yet you felt the need to post here in the early hours??

Postcount +1

mud

boodlesdoodles wrote: »

One Christmas, my brother got a small white Pac-Man game some time around mid-80s I think. It had 2 little silver joysticks. He spent a full 14hours playing it, so much so he broke the stick that moved Pac-man around and ended up having to put a match in place of it. I spent the 14hours watching him, I wasn't allowed play. My bro decided he had to see what happened when he got to 1million. After 14hours of dedicated playing (ending up for the last couple of hours in a dark kitchen as batteries were dying) he got to million and the game went straight back to 01. He picked up the game and kicked it across the back yard in temper. Now that was a great Christmas

Too funny, I was convinced the FBI would come to my door and offer me a job if I got to a million . . . I miss bein' young and hopeful

jaffa20

i feel old:(

InkSlinger67

I used to play Trivial Pursuit with wedgies instead of wedges

Painful nostalgia! :eek:

Lexus1976

The Saint wrote: »

Ah yes. The 2600, the memories. I got mine with Centipede. Later I got Title Match Pro Wrestling and thought I was a right flash bastard. Good times.

Ah centipede, how could I forget

Lexus1976

Got these one christmas, literally hours of fun

A - Team

http://www.toycollector.com/gallery/actionfigures/ATeam.jpg

Gummy Panda

I don't remember Xmas in the 80s but remember Xmas in the 90s having a NES with Mega Man 2 and Double Dragon 2

spoofilyj

I had an Amstraid 6128 remember playing games like Galaxica, Burning Rubber and Robo Cop, ah the memories,
Having Sugar puffs for brekkie or Liga if I could find any.
Does any one know why Sugar puffs make you pee smell like sugar puffs?

We has a Mac too but it had a 6 and 1/2 inch floppy drive but no games, remember playing with Ms Paint though.

Watching cool cartoons like He-Man and Thunder Cats and Mask.:D

PCPhoto

had an atari 2600 (arkenoid - spelled wrong but what a game)

and had an amstrad 464 ..... details are a bit hazy but pretty sure some of the amstrad tapes were only given to local charity shop in the last year or two ....i spotted one of the joysticks for the arati in the garage.

think we had an amstrad 6128 at one point.....aaahhh....the 80's ...we were spoilt as kids (im still my mums favourite)

Lexus1976

spoofilyj wrote: »

I had an Amstraid 6128 remember playing games like Galaxica, Burning Rubber and Robo Cop, ah the memories,
Having Sugar puffs for brekkie or Liga if I could find any.
Does any one know why Sugar puffs make you pee smell like sugar puffs?

We has a Mac too but it had a 6 and 1/2 inch floppy drive but no games, remember playing with Ms Paint though.

Watching cool cartoons like He-Man and Thunder Cats and Mask.:D

Loved the Thunder Cats

Ciaran187

Being born almost exactly halfway through the 80's, the first few were spend soiling my pants and laughing. In the 90's, however, I had the Sega Master System 2 with Alex Kidd built in. Mega! My mate had the SNES with Mortal Kombat and Street Fighter 2 Turbo.

Recently, I bought a SNES from eBay but was in poxy condition so can't play it.

Anyone else see those *new* Sega Megadrives on sale a couple of months ago? 15 games built in. I snapped one up straight away. Golden Axe, Bonza Bros, Columns. Brilliant. I've spent more time on that lately than on my XBox or Wii!